LAS VEGAS — Lexi Thompson used to be pouring in putts from in all places Friday and used to be at the verge of creating the short within the Shriners Youngsters’s Perceivable. Two overdue bogeys had been most likely to offer her the weekend off.

Thompson overlooked a 6-foot birdie putt on her ultimate gap on the TPC Summerlin and needed to accept a 2-under 69, retirement her a minimum of 1 shot out of doors the short sequence in her bid to transform the primary lady in 78 years to manufacture a 36-hole short at the PGA Excursion.

Her 69 used to be 1 shot scale down of the report through a feminine golfer at the PGA Excursion — Michelle Wie two times shot 68 within the Sony Perceivable, as soon as as a 14-year-old when she overlooked the short through a unmarried shot. Thompson’s ranking to par of two below ties Wie’s 2nd rounds on the 2004 and 2006 Sony Perceivable in Hawaii for the bottom through a girl in a spherical in PGA Excursion historical past, in step with ESPN Stats & Knowledge.

“I knew I had to play my A-game,” Thompson stated, including that golfing used to be most effective a part of her being in Las Vegas. “Just coming into the week there was more of a message than just playing golf. To inspire the kids, that’s what I enjoy most.”

Thompson seemed as even though she may well be round for all 4 days.

She completed the hole spherical, which have been suspended through darkness, through lacking a 20-foot par putt at the seventeenth gap and making par at the 18th for a 73. She started her 2nd 9 with a bogey at the tenth gap.

And next the 28-year-old American got here to future. She crammed her way to 4 ft at the eleventh for a birdie. She used to be simply off the golf green at the par-5 thirteenth and took two putts for birdie. She drove the 296-yard fifteenth inexperienced for a two-putt birdie.

Thompson made the flip and promptly holed a birdie putt from simply inside of 25 ft, and next she poured in a birdie putt from simply inside of 30 ft.

She used to be 4 below for the spherical via 11 holes, and a couple of below for the event.

All of it modified with one swing — and one mischievous determination. Her tee shot at the par-3 5th used to be neatly to the proper into the local department, the pin towards the proper facet of the golf green. In lieu of taking a large chance through looking to crash out of the wilderness, she took a penalty loose for a blank lie 98 yards from the opening and crash wedge to five ft to depart with bogey.

Her hopes pale at the lengthy par-3 8th. She went simply over the golf green, chipped weakly to twelve ft and overlooked the par putt.

She completed at even-par 142. The short used to be at 1 below when she walked off the 9th inexperienced, however already used to be at 2 below nearest she had signed her card. Scoring statuses had been splendid, and with part the 132-player garden nonetheless at the direction, the short used to be no longer anticipated to return again.

Thompson is the 7th lady to play games at the PGA Excursion. Babe Didrikson Zaharias used to be the closing to manufacture a 36-hole short in 1945.

The Related Press contributed to this record.